The pie charts demonstrate how European city dwellers traveled to their workplace and reached home between 1959 and 2009 and also give information about the average distance and duration in the aforementioned period of time.
In general, it can be obviously seen that there was an upward direction for citizens driving cars to work, which acquired the highest position over half a century while the opposite trend was true for the number of citizens travelling on foot. Besides, the figures for those who reached their destinations by public transportations changed slightly or nothing, despite the unsimilar duration and distance.
As can be seen from the graphs, the number of European employees choosing automobiles for reaching office stood at 10% in 1959, and experienced an upsurge to 35% of total, becoming the lead among four categories in 2009. Meanwhile, in 1959, the rate of people in a European city travelling on foot achieved the first rank with 55%, dominating more than half of the total population, then witnessed a descending trend, which plummeted by 20% over the 50–year-course.
Turning to the other remaining categories, in 1959, the proportion of city dwellers commuting by train initially stood at 15%, then relatively remained stable until 2009. Likewise, the percentage of people using the bus for arriving at their working environment started at 15%, which was as same as the figure for those choosing the train at the beginning, then dropped steadily by 2% over the years surveyed. In addition, the number of citizens travelling by other vehicles began at the lowest level with 5% in 1959, till 2009, this figure experienced a moderate growth to 12%, still holding the last rank over years.
It is clear that there were a lot of changes in average distance and duration, which were from 3.5 kilometers, 17 minutes to 19 kilometers, 42 minutes respectively. Therefore, the proportions of European city dwellers choosing several kinds of transportation also witnessed various significant shifts.